Julia Hu: Lark founder. Digital health maven. Hip-hop dancer.
Published:
July 27, 2015
Outlet:
TechRepublic
After about four years in the startup world, Hu went to MIT's Sloan School of Management for her MBA. She was excited about starting a company, but she wasn't sure what yet. While there, she met a Stanford researcher who coached sports stars and Olympic athletes to break world records by using data to get them to sleep better.Read more

Mares: Wealth inequality
Published:
July 27, 2015
Outlet:
Vermont Public Radio (Audio)
But MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson reminds us that technological advances alone can't guarantee societal benefits, and concludes, "if we build economies and societies that exclude many people from the cycle of prosperity shame on us!"Read more

Relief for cities' budget-busting health-care costs
Published:
July 26, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal (Opinion Piece)
Mr. Pozen is a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution...The budgets of many cities and states will soon be disrupted by new accounting rules for retiree health plans.Read more

Eyes inside
Published:
July 24, 2015
Outlet:
WORLD on campus
Aguilar started working on the Explorer idea after the 2010 Haiti earthquake while he was an MBA student at MIT. He learned that search and rescue personnel were using cumbersome fiber-optic cameras that couldn't easily find survivors trapped in the rubble.Read more

Drones: Taking off in the agriculture industry
Published:
July 19, 2015
Outlet:
PRI (Audio)
Now, a team of MIT engineers has equipped flying drones with cameras to better monitor farms. Host Steve Curwood talks with inventor Nikhil Vadhavkar about his project's potential to increase crop yields and lessen the need for pesticides.Read more

How small businesses can fend off hackers
Published:
July 16, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal (Opinion Piece)
Mr. Shipley is a lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management...If you wanted to hack a business, which one would you pick: A Fortune 500 company with a large digital-security budget and a team dedicated to protecting its cyberassets?Read more

Capturing the value of synchronized innovation
Published:
July 13, 2015
Outlet:
MIT Sloan Management Review (Opinion Piece)
Jason P. Davis is an associate professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship and strategic management at MIT's Sloan School of Management....For more than 30 years, Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, two technology powerhouses, have closely synchronized many product development and launch activities in one of the most widely recognized corporate alliances.Read more

How big data can be used to improve early detection of cognitive disease
Published:
July 13, 2015
Outlet:
The Health Care Blog (Opinion Piece)
Cynthia Rudin is an associate professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)...The aging of populations worldwide is leading to many healthcare challenges, such as an increase in dementia patients.Read more

Obama should follow overtime plan with more unilateral moves to update labor laws
Published:
July 10, 2015
Outlet:
The Conversation (Opinion Piece)
Thomas Kochan teaches and study Work and Employment Relations at the MIT Sloan School of Management... Late last month, President Barack Obama took a step around the longstanding congressional gridlock over labor and employment policies by announcing a plan to boost the salary threshold governing overtime from US$23,600 to $50,440 and to index it to inflation.Read more

Want engaged employees? It's easy--pay them
Published:
July 10, 2015
Outlet:
Fortune Magazine
Zeynep Ton, an adjunct associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the author of The Good Jobs Strategy, says that for many of those in low-paying sectors such as retail, who aren't lucky enough to work at a place like Costco, being fully engaged is simply unrealistic.Read more

A summer reading list
Published:
July 9, 2015
Outlet:
Education Week
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. By far the best telescope you can get to see the future coming, specifically a glimpse of the way intelligent machines will change almost everything, especially work, income distribution and the kinds of skills that work will demand.Read more

An MIT MBA co-founds health tech startup
Published:
July 7, 2015
Outlet:
Beat The GMAT
MIT Sloan MBA Karan Singh opted to take a different path to launching a startup. Rather than spending red-eye nights and hernia-inducing days agonizing over business plans with his cofounder, Anmol Madan, he ate nutritious breakfasts, practiced yoga, and spent time hiking with his wife.Read more

The good jobs strategy
Published:
July 7, 2015
Outlet:
The New York Times
And then there was Zeynep Ton. A 40-year-old adjunct associate professor at the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T., Ton brought one of the most radical, and yet one of the most sensible, ideas to Aspen this year.Read more

Dribbling with statistics, shooting with numbers
Published:
July 4, 2015
Outlet:
The Hindu (India)
Examples such as the Houston Rockets (whose general manager, Daryl Morey, is a MIT MBA graduate with a computer science/ statistics degree) and the San Antonio Spurs come to mind immediately.Read more

Europe's monetary cordon sanitaire
Published:
July 3, 2015
Outlet:
The Jordan Times (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, is co-founder of a leading economics blog, http://baselinescenario.com/, a professor at MIT Sloan, and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics....German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble likes to criticise other governments, including that of the United States, for their “irresponsible” policies.Read more

How to race with–and not against–machines
Published:
July 2, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal
The Great Decoupling, an interview with MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andy McAfee in Harvard Business Review directly addresses these questions. Mssrs. Brynjolfsson and McAfee are the authors of two recent bestsellers, the 2011 Race Against the Machine...Read more

B-schools get a feel for virtual reality
Published:
July 1, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal
“In the past, what we'd no doubt have to do is cancel” the weekend of programming, said Peter Hirst, executive director of Sloan's executive education program. Instead, Mr. Hirst said faculty members thought it would be a “perfect opportunity to try using this technology to enable people who couldn't attend because of the storm to attend virtually.”Read more

Working hard for the money -- will overtime help?
Published:
June 30, 2015
Outlet:
Marketplace (Audio)
“Will this by itself make us walk away smiling and thinking that all is well with the labor market? No,” says Paul Osterman of the MIT Sloan School of Management. “But it'll contribute to that.”Read more

The Hays Advantage
Published:
June 29, 2015
Outlet:
Bloomberg Radio (Audio)
MIT Sloan Professor Athanasios Orphanides discusses the looming financial crisis in Greece and the possible fallout from default.Read more

How to turn an internship into a job offer
Published:
June 28, 2015
Outlet:
The Financial Times (Opinion Piece)
Sue Kline is the co-senior director of the MIT Sloan School of Management career development office...First and foremost, they want to see if you are able to accomplish the tasks put in front of you.Read more

Throwable tactical camera gets commercial release
Published:
June 26, 2015
Outlet:
Phys.org
Instrumental in Bounce Imaging's early development, however, was the VMS, which Aguilar turned to shortly after forming Bounce Imaging at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Classmate and U.S. Army veteran David Young MBA '12 joined the project early to provide a perspective of an end-user.Read more

Chinese manufacturing seeks a major upgrade
Published:
June 25, 2015
Outlet:
South China Morning Post (Opinion Piece)
Thomas Roemer is a senior lecturer and executive director of the Leaders for Global Operations programme at the MIT Sloan School of Management...When Chinese officials recently announced plans to support investment in robots in China's manufacturing industries, the reaction in some US circles was one of astonishment, if not incredulity.Read more

How asking tough questions could save your career
Published:
June 24, 2015
Outlet:
Fortune Magazine (Opinion Piece)
Hal Gregersen is executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management....At age four, we're fueled with curiosity, asking thousands of questions to better grasp what's going on around us.Read more

Women in business school: Female clubs aid fight to recruit top women
Published:
June 23, 2015
Outlet:
Business Because
MIT Sloan, for example, hosts women-specific admissions events on campus, including the Women's Ambassador's Day and Women's Week. “I believe gender parity is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more women you have in the program, the more women you will attract,” says Dawna Levenson, director of MBA admissions at MIT Sloan.Read more

Elad Shoushan, MBA '14
Published:
June 22, 2015
Outlet:
MIT Technology Review
After five surgeries on one knee and two on the other, Elad Shoushan hung up his high-tops, leaving his Israeli professional basketball career for computer science. Now instead of making assists on the court, he helps students score more points on standardized tests.Read more

Inside MIT's virtual, robotic workplace
Published:
June 18, 2015
Outlet:
Fast Company
"This all adds to the experience of being there, much more so than any of the other sort of more traditional technological approaches that we've all been using," says Peter Hirst, executive director of the executive education arm of MIT's Sloan School of Management.Read more

The arrogance of the disciplinarians
Published:
June 17, 2015
Outlet:
The Hill (Opinion Piece)
Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and a professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management...People love to use moral hazard as an excuse to inflict pain on others. So do governments, as we are seeing as the European Union once again threatens Greece with severe measures for that nation's failure to fully implement the EU's harsh austerity measures.Read more

Will humans go the way of horses?
Published:
June 16, 2015
Outlet:
Foreign Affairs (Opinion Piece)
By Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee...The debate over what technology does to work, jobs, and wages is as old as the industrial era itself.Read more

Video: Why banks are wary of bitcoins
Published:
June 16, 2015
Outlet:
Enterprise Innovation
In the Fortune story “Why banks fear bitcoin”, Trond Arne Undheim, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management” said the “virtual currently is likely to decentralize banking services.” His view may well be a reflection on how money is created and controlled.Read more

Thriving in an increasingly digital ecosystem
Published:
June 16, 2015
Outlet:
MIT Sloan Management Review (Opinion Piece)
Peter Weill is chairman and senior research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management's Center for Information Systems Research, where Stephanie L. Woerner is a research scientist.Read more

The business concept that changed the way I think about parenting
Published:
June 11, 2015
Outlet:
The Huffington Post (Opinion Piece)
Monika has benefited from the wisdom of an amazing group of influencers, thought leaders and practitioners including former classmates and professors at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and former colleagues and clients at McKinsey and Company and beyond.Read more

Detention affects teenagers' education
Published:
June 10, 2015
Outlet:
Yahoo! India
"We find that kids who go into juvenile detention are much less likely to graduate from high school and much more likely to end up in prison as adults," said co-author Joseph Doyle, an economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Read more

NPR debates whether computers will crush entire career categories
Published:
June 9, 2015
Outlet:
NPR (Audio)
National Public Radio has a fair-and-balanced piece about whether automation will put many millions of people out of work: Andrew McAfee, co-author of The Second Machine Age, says Yes and David Autor, an MIT economist, says No. The report is pretty good for less than four minutes of radio.Read more

Prevent conflicting messages
Published:
June 9, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal's Livemint Blog (Opinion Piece)
Charlie Kiefer teaches corporate entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management, MIT...We're all a little bit crazy—and at some point, most managers have certainly felt that way about their subordinates.Read more

Would you miss voicemail?
Published:
June 8, 2015
Outlet:
CKOM-AM (Audio)
After news that American bank JP Morgan is getting rid of voicemail for employees who don't directly serve customers, MIT professor Michael Schrage is predicting that voicemail will soon be a thing of the past.Read more

Designer spotlight: Sundar modernizes textile sourcing for fashion industry
Published:
June 6, 2015
Outlet:
Forbes Magazine
Prior to launching Sundar, MIT Sloan School of Management-grad Gill was a banker and advisor for several years to top business owners and companies in India. She was Vice President at Deutsche Bank's Private Wealth Management Division and Associate Director at USB's Wealth Management Global South Asia.Read more

The blind spot: Uncovering the grammar of the social field
Published:
June 6, 2015
Outlet:
The Huffington Post (Opinion Piece)
Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS Program and co-founded the Global Wellbeing Lab...My father is a farmer. As one of the pioneers of bio-dynamic farming in Germany, he devotes all his attention to cultivating the quality of the soil in his fields.Read more

Trade: The experts go to war
Published:
June 6, 2015
Outlet:
Politico (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He was previously chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is co-founder of BaselineScenario.com and co-author of White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters To You.Read more

Could a Baltimore happen in Chicago?
Published:
June 3, 2015
Outlet:
The Huffington Post (Opinion Piece)
Robert McKersie is Professor Emeritus of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management...Recently we have witnessed the unfortunate sequence of legitimate and responsible protest actions being hijacked by those who use the crowd effect of many marchers as a cover for their criminal activities of looting and burning.Read more

PillPack raises $50 million
Published:
June 3, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe's Beta Boston
After the contest, Parker volunteered to help organize MIT's annual 100K entrepreneurship challenge, where he met his co-founder, Elliott Cohen, who was attending the university's Sloan School of Management and had just started a hackathon series called Hacking Medicine, which brought together Boston's academic and hospital communities to find new ways to rethink the delivery of heath care.Read more

What happened to all those banks that failed in the crisis?
Published:
June 3, 2015
Outlet:
The Conversation (Opinion Piece)
João Granja is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management...During the financial crisis and its aftermath, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) sold nearly 500 failed banks in the United States.Read more

Spoiler alert - New app helps businesses to reduce food waste
Published:
June 2, 2015
Outlet:
Circulate
Two MIT Sloan MBA students, Ricky Ashenfelter and Emily Malina, have developed a new app that connects food that is about to be wasted with organisations and people that can use it. ‘Spoiler Alert' is a free, downloadable app, where stores can post available surplus food (vegetables to start with), it is also accessed by nearby food rescue organisations, who can pick up the surplus and distribute to those who need it.Read more

Opinion: Good trade intentions gone bad
Published:
June 1, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, is a professor at MIT Sloan, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-founder of a leading economics blog, The Baseline Scenario. He is the co-author of "White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You."Read more

Six ways to launch your start-up with no cash
Published:
May 29, 2015
Outlet:
Entrepreneur Magazine
Brenton Hayden is the founder and chairman of the board of Renters Warehouse. A Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management graduate, Hayden leads a team of over 140 employees and franchises in 21 states with a portfolio of managed properties valued at just under $1 billion.Read more

Jobless? Blame corporate America's borrowing binge
Published:
May 27, 2015
Outlet:
Fortune Magazine (Opinion Piece)
Xavier Giroud is the Ford International Career Development Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management.... What led to the Great Recession? Was it all the fault of consumers? Did they borrow recklessly because money was cheap and mortgages were too easy to get?Read more

At MIT, mastering the science of working from home
Published:
May 26, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal
A couple of years ago, Peter Hirst, who runs the executive-education arm of MIT's Sloan School of Management, wondered what might happen if his 35 employees could work wherever, and whenever, they wanted. The Cambridge, Mass., school had long offered flexible work arrangements to those who requested them, but “it had always felt a little like a very special benefit,” Hirst said.Read more

Rate rigging in London affects U.S. consumers
Published:
May 20, 2015
Outlet:
Marketplace (Audio)
“There are important amounts of borrowing for car loans and for credit cards that are absolutely tied to a variable rate, and that variable rate is often LIBOR,” says Simon Johnson, a professor of global economics and management at MIT's Sloan School of Management.Read more

Boyhood
Published:
May 20, 2015
Outlet:
New York Magazine
“We're in the midst of one of the greatest onetime events in history,” declared the MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson. Attendees were asked to predict when machines would become better than humans at all human tasks; virtually all were willing to put a date on the event, and their median answer was 2050.Read more

Possible to predict recidivism? Here's how...
Published:
May 19, 2015
Outlet:
MSNBC (Video)
About two thirds of former prisoners are back in jail within 3 years of their release. MIT Sloan School of Management's Professor Cynthia Rudin discusses using machine learning to predict and prevent recidivism.Read more

What work will look like in 2025
Published:
May 19, 2015
Outlet:
Fast Company
The last billion people on the planet will be connected to the Internet over the next 10 years, says Erik Brynjolfsson, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, director of the MIT Center for Digital Business...Read more

What does nuclear power cost? Old plants dispel easy answers
Published:
May 19, 2015
Outlet:
The Conversation (Opinion Piece)
John Parsons is a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a member of its Finance Group. He heads the MBA Finance Track...What is the economic cost of nuclear power? That turns out to be a very difficult question to answer.Read more

The branding of an American president
Published:
May 18, 2015
Outlet:
The Conversation (Opinion Piece)
Ellen Tave Glassman directs design for the MIT Sloan Office of Communications with a focus on the school's digital experiences...These days, a website, a YouTube video and a kickoff speech will often accompany each presidential campaign rollout.Read more

Sen Warren is right: Fast-track could help roll back Dodd-Frank
Published:
May 17, 2015
Outlet:
The Conversation (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, and a member of the FDIC's Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee.Read more

2015 best MBAs: Elena Mendez
Published:
May 16, 2015
Outlet:
Poets & Quants
Every MBA student dreams of making an impact. At MIT Sloan, Elena Mendez-Escobar is changing hearts and minds. Armed with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics , Mendez-Escobar launched an educational program to help students understand how unconscious bias can poison their decision-making and relationships.Read more

Raptor Maps drone plan snags $100K prize
Published:
May 15, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe's Beta Boston
The pitching has ended and the votes are in. Team Raptor Maps, which proposes to use camera-carrying drones to survey farmland and pinpoint damage before pests and diseases can decimate crops, beat out 193 contestants to win the judges' favor and a check for $100,000 at the 25th annual MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition Wednesday evening.Read more

MIT students integrate fiber optics for more energy efficient chips
Published:
May 14, 2015
Outlet:
Next Big Future
Using light instead of electricity can drop energy usage by about 95 percent in chip-to-chip communications and increase bandwidth tenfold, team member Alex Wright, a graduate student in the MIT Sloan School of Management, said. Incorporating the technology into massive data centers, run by tech giants like Facebook, she added, could help cut energy usage in these centers by up to 10 percent.Read more

Harnessing technology
Published:
May 13, 2015
Outlet:
Financial Times (Video)
David Schmittlein, dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses the effect of the digital economy on management education with FT Business Education Editor Della Bradshaw.Read more

How Richard Branson turned his passion into a tangible business
Published:
May 12, 2015
Outlet:
Fortune Magazine (Opinion Piece)
Hal Gregersen is executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators.Read more

Women in business Q&A: Shivani Garg Patel is co-founder, Samahope
Published:
May 12, 2015
Outlet:
The Huffington Post
Shivani Garg Patel is Co-founder of Samahope, a crowdfunding site for doctors providing critical medical treatments for the world's poorest...She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.Read more

Will the robots take over?
Published:
May 11, 2015
Outlet:
BBC (Audio)
Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee from MIT Sloan School of Management, on algorithms and artificial intelligence in the workplace.Read more

Tom Brady's branding may offer peek at Patriots' future
Published:
May 9, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe
Intertwined as Brady and the Patriots might be, the team's business side — like the mechanized football operations run by coach Bill Belichick — is too savvy to attach all of its fortunes to one player, said Ben Shields, a former director of social media and marketing at ESPN who now teaches managerial communication at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Read more

NAFTA legacy casts a shadow on new trade agreements
Published:
May 8, 2015
Outlet:
Marketplace (Audio)
Those fears have colored many Americans' present-day perceptions of the agreement, but the reality is far less dramatic, says Simon Johnson, a professor of global economics at MIT. “NAFTA did not do as much as is claimed by people who are either for or against NAFTA,” he says.Read more

Former NASCAR mechanic's social media app raises $100 million
Published:
May 7, 2015
Outlet:
Upstart Business Journal
The Series C round was led by SoftBank, alongside BlueRun Ventures. Banjo founder and CEO Damien Patton, who attended MIT's Sloan School of Management, previously started a number of startups and was once a mechanic in a NASCAR pit crew, according to his LinkedIn page.Read more

Make it OK for employees to challenge your ideas
Published:
May 6, 2015
Outlet:
Harvard Business Review (Opinion Piece)
Hal Gregersen (@HalGregersen) is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is coauthor of the book The Innovator's DNA, founder of the 4-24 project, and a frequent speaker on leading innovation and change.Read more

After the Bell
Published:
May 5, 2015
Outlet:
Fox Business Network (Video)
MIT Sloan Professor Andrew McAfee discusses the future of work, industrialization and the Second Machine Age.Read more

China's robot revolution masks need to invest in people
Published:
April 28, 2015
Outlet:
Nikkei Asian Review (Japan) (Opinion Piece)
Michael Schrage is a research fellow with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School's Initiative on the Digital Economy. He is also an author of "The Innovator's Hypothesis" (MIT Press, 2014).Read more

What it takes to change your brain's patterns after age 25
Published:
April 28, 2015
Outlet:
Fast Company
Simply put, when the brain is young and not yet fully formed, there's a lot of flexibility and plasticity, which explains why kids learn so quickly, says Deborah Ancona, a professor of management and organizational studies at MIT.Read more

Education just a starting point: US academic
Published:
April 27, 2015
Outlet:
The Saudi Gazette (Saudi Arabia)
Deborah J. Lucas, the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the director of the new MIT Center for Finance and Policy, participated in the MASIC Annual Investment Forum 2015 in Riyadh.Read more

MIT India Conference on May 2 attracts key speakers
Published:
April 24, 2015
Outlet:
INDIA New England
"On this occasion, INDIA New England News conducted an interview via email with Arita Sehgal, an MBA student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of marketing for MIT India Conference. Here are unedited excerpts from the interview..."Read more

As you were saying...Prosperity key to Mideast peace
Published:
April 24, 2015
Outlet:
Boston Herald (Opinion Piece)
Aliza Landes is an MBA candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a master's in public administration candidate at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The Economic Prosperity for Peace conference takes place tomorrow at Harvard Business School and will include the participation of Maryam Faghih Imani.Read more

Study: Peer review predicts success
Published:
April 23, 2015
Outlet:
The Scientist Magazine
"This is the most important science policy paper in a long time," said Pierre Azoulay of the MIT Sloan School of Management who was not involved in the research. When it comes to peer review, "most of the pontifications that you hear—most of the anger, editorials, suggestions for reform—have been remarkably data-free. So this paper, as far as I am concerned, is really a breath of fresh air."Read more

How the sharing economy could make the labor movement more relevant
Published:
April 23, 2015
Outlet:
Vice News
"I think this is part of the new ways of getting work done, and I think there are going to be many more of these kinds of arrangements, but the question in my mind is, Who will be able to guarantee the best quality and reliability of service and provide decent employment opportunities for people coming in to do the work?" said Thomas Kochan, co-director of MIT's Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research.Read more

Strategy rules: Five key lessons from tech titans
Published:
April 21, 2015
Outlet:
CITY A.M. (UK)
A new book by management experts David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano might help. Strategy Rules turns the experiences of Microsoft's Bill Gates, Apple's Jobs, and Intel's Andy Grove into five simple strategy lessons.Read more

Women in business school: Courses make strides in closing gender divide
Published:
April 19, 2015
Outlet:
Business Because
The US has made progress. Dawna Levenson, director of MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan School of Management, says women enrolled in MIT's two-year MBA comprise 40.7% of the student body – a record. MIT has been hosting women-specific recruiting events on campus, and networking events across the US, Dawna says.Read more

Artie T.'s secrets for Market Basket success detailed
Published:
April 16, 2015
Outlet:
WCVB-TV
Those principles are included in an MIT Sloan School of Management review of the epic feud that led to an historic worker walkout and customer boycott last summer. That dispute began when the company's board replaced Demoulas, who was beloved for his leadership but had long feuded with his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, over control of the family-owned company.Read more

Debt is dangerous, part 245925028508
Published:
April 16, 2015
Outlet:
The Financial Times
A fascinating new paper by Xavier Giroud and Holger Mueller argues that many US companies went through a similar experience, and that this made the downturn about twice as worse as it otherwise would have been.Read more

Timeless lessons from 3 top tech titans
Published:
April 15, 2015
Outlet:
CNBC (Video)
Michael Cusumano, "Strategy Rules" co-author, and David Yoffie, "Strategy Rules" co-author, share insight on how Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Andy Grove were able to stand out above their peers and change the tech world forever. Read more

The three pitfalls that trap sustainability leaders -- and how to avoid them
Published:
April 15, 2015
Outlet:
Green Biz
That dilemma was the subject of a recent working paper, "Authentic Sustainability: Navigating Pitfalls, Paradoxes, and Pathways in Conversations toward a Better World," co-written by Gabriel Grant, a doctoral candidate in leadership and sustainability at the Yale School of Forestry and Environment, and Jason Jay, director of the sustainability initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Read more

Kenyan expat coming home to hold key Airtel position
Published:
April 13, 2015
Outlet:
Business Daily Africa
Mr. Khamis, a Kenyan, holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts, USA and another from the University of Nairobi specializing in Strategy and Marketing. He also has a post-graduate diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing – UK and a Bachelor of Education in Science from Egerton University. Read more

Podcast: On-call scheduling may violate state law
Published:
April 13, 2015
Outlet:
Marketplace (Audio)
The question is, are they violating state law when they use a system known as "on-call" scheduling? For context, we turn to Thomas Kochan is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Read more

Throwing haymakers for cancer research
Published:
April 11, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe
"Don't fight a cancer survivor," said Myerson, who is about to complete his MBA at MIT's Sloan School and then join FKA Ventures. All fighters, who have ranged in age from 23 through 59, must wear protective headgear in the ring. Read more

Big data: Trying to build better workers
Published:
April 11, 2015
Outlet:
Financial Review (Australia)
"The heart of science is measurement," says Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Center for Digital Business at the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. "We're seeing a revolution in measurement, and it will revolutionise organisational economics and personnel economics." Read more

Top investors hold 'pitch competition' for women only
Published:
April 10, 2015
Outlet:
Fortune Magazine (Opinion Piece)
Erica Swallow is a technology writer, startup entrepreneur, and status quo wrecker. She is currently an MBA candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and her work has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, and The Huffington Post, among others. Read more

Can you learn to lead?
Published:
April 7, 2015
Outlet:
The New York Times
John Van Maanen, a professor of management at M.I.T. Sloan who teaches a course named "Leading Organizations," isn't so sure it can. "Even today, three-plus decades in, there's no real definition of it," he says. Read more

The right way to use compensation
Published:
April 7, 2015
Outlet:
Harvard Business Review (Opinion Piece)
I was the fourth employee hired at HubSpot. I'd met the two cofounders when we were all pursuing graduate degrees at MIT's Sloan School of Management. They're smart guys with a big mission: to help companies transform their marketing by using online content to draw potential customers to their websites, a practice known as "inbound" marketing. Read more

'Smart beta' funds might outsmart investors
Published:
April 7, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal
Smart beta will make it more difficult for active managers who are "hiding behind beta," says Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Read more

Transcript: Why manufacturing standards are falling out of whack
Published:
April 7, 2015
Outlet:
The Globe and Mail
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, talking management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am delighted to speak to JoAnne Yates from MIT [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management]. Read more

Best business schools for the tech industry
Published:
April 6, 2015
Outlet:
Beat The GMAT
The MBA program: Housed in one of the foremost engineering schools in the country, 30% of Sloan MBAs have an engineering background. GMAT scores in the full-time MBA program range from 660 to 760, and successful applicants bring an average of four years of work experience. Read more

One stop shopping for all your energy needs
Published:
April 6, 2015
Outlet:
Bloomberg Businessweek
Wolfeboro native Christopher Gaudet, and his partner, Andre Ramirez, began working on the Shop Energy website in late 2013. The two met while attending the MIT Sloan School of Management, graduating with master's degrees in 2009. Read more

MIT Climate CoLab asks all for impactful climate plans
Published:
April 6, 2015
Outlet:
CleanTechnica
Says MIT Sloan Professor Thomas Malone, director of the Center for Collective Intelligence and principal investigator for the Climate CoLab project: "As systems like Linux and Wikipedia have shown, people from around the world are connected by the Internet and can work together to solve complex problems in very new ways." Read more

Trademarks – Lessons of the blue dot
Published:
April 4, 2015
Outlet:
IP Watch Dog (Opinion Piece)
Larry Kilham is from the third generation of a family, which has produced notable inventors who built successful businesses. The author, a Sloan School of Management graduate from MIT, has three patents and has founded two high-tech companies. Read more

MIT alum hopes to spread tech-boom excitement in young, increasingly connected Middle East
Published:
April 3, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe's BetaBoston
Her interest in the Middle Eastern entrepreneurial scene, however, was born in Boston, while she was pursuing an MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management. "Being in Boston in 1999 and 2000 at the time of the Internet bubble, when entrepreneurship was really booming and everyone on campus was starting a company, I caught the virus," she said. Read more

Will the robots come and take our jobs?
Published:
April 2, 2015
Outlet:
The Financial Times
The publication of "The Second Machine Age" by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson last year sparked a debate over the impact of technological change on the workplace. Read more

Smart career strategy: Layoff self-defense
Published:
April 2, 2015
Outlet:
AOL Jobs (Opinion Piece)
Susan P. Joyce is editor and chief writer at Job-hunt.org and and chief blogger at Workcoachcafe.com, websites devoted to helping job seekers find employment. She is also a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Read more

In-hospital care saves money -- and lives
Published:
March 31, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe (Opinion Piece)
Joseph Doyle is a professor of management at MIT's Sloan School. John Graves is assistant professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Jonathan Gruber is professor of economics at MIT and the director of the NBER Health Care Program.Read more

What MIT is learning about online courses and working from home
Published:
March 30, 2015
Outlet:
Harvard Business Review
But as Peter Hirst, director of the executive education program at the MIT Sloan School of management, told me, there's still something special about face-to-face interaction. "The richest experience [is still] being able to get together in person, face to face. There's millions of years of evolution behind that."Read more

Entrepreneurs use business school tool to buy companies globally
Published:
March 29, 2015
Outlet:
The Financial Times
Marc Bartomeus, an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan, returned to his native Spain to set up one of Europe's first homegrown search funds. "I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, and I had thought of doing an MBA as a break that would enable me to think about my next move," he says.Read more

MIT students show world what WeChat can do
Published:
March 27, 2015
Outlet:
China Daily
Three students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management won a global business competition hosted by one of China's top business schools in partnership with Tencent's mobile networking platform WeChat in Shanghai on Sunday.Read more

MIT's Climate CoLab puts big money up for big climate concepts
Published:
March 25, 2015
Outlet:
Triple Pundit
"As systems like Linux and Wikipedia have shown, people from around the world — connected by the Internet — can work together to solve complex problems in very new ways," said MIT Sloan professor Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and principal investigator for the Climate CoLab project.Read more

Despite flurry of tragedies, air crashes are rare
Published:
March 24, 2015
Outlet:
USA Today
In more developed countries such as the U.S., Spain and Germany, the risk calculation is one death per 23.9 million passengers carried, according to a report by Arnold Barnett, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology statistics professor who assessed the period from Jan. 1, 2008, to July 25, 2014.Read more

Currency manipulation by countries must end
Published:
March 24, 2015
Outlet:
The Gulf Times (Qatar) (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the co-author of White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, And Why It Matters To You.Read more

Million-dollar suitcase: Interview with Brian Chen of Bluesmart
Published:
March 23, 2015
Outlet:
Under 30 CEO
Before joining Bluesmart, Brian served as the director of business operations for Daily Secret, a digital media brand, and he also worked with entrepreneurial nonprofit Endeavor and as a portfolio management analyst for Hall Capital Partners. Brian is currently pursuing an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.Read more

'Suits and geeks:' A local matchup for startups
Published:
March 23, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe's BetaBoston
Paul English is the founder of three companies — including Kayak.com — a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, and the brains behind Blade, which helps technology startups get off the ground.Read more

Guest viewpoint: From China to America
Published:
March 20, 2015
Outlet:
Ithaca Journal
In 2007, Enying embarked on a Ph.D. program in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There, her research refocused on industrial relations and conditions, and she wrote her Ph.D. thesis on labor standards in China.Read more

Thomas A. Kochan: Teachers unions, districts find a better way
Published:
March 20, 2015
Outlet:
Wisconsin State Journal (Opinion Piece)
Thomas A. Kochan is a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management...This poetic statement lamenting the lack of a powerful response to attacks on specific groups and individuals comes to mind as I watch with sadness attacks on workers and their unions in my native Wisconsin.Read more

Collaboration, from the Wright Brothers to Robots
Published:
March 20, 2015
Outlet:
Harvard Business Review (Opinion Piece)
Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business, is the author of the books Serious Play (HBR Press), Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become? (HBR Press) and The Innovator's Hypothesis (MIT Press).Read more

MIT says cancer drug costs have outpaced quality increases
Published:
March 18, 2015
Outlet:
Boston Business Journal
"I think the value of good health has really increased enormously over the last few decades," says Ernst Berndt, the Louis E. Seley Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-author of a new paper detailing the study's findings.Read more

Six hot jobs for MBA graduates
Published:
March 17, 2015
Outlet:
U.S. News & World Report
Given IT managers' liaison role between the tech and business worlds, Jeanne Ross, director and principal research scientist at Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research, advises hopefuls to take classes about business process design, enterprise requirements, project management and change management.Read more

Putting the TPP on the right track
Published:
March 17, 2015
Outlet:
Politico Magazine (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and was chief economist of the IMF...With negotiations reported to be entering the final stages, it is critical that Congress focus at this point not on how to “fast track” approval of an agreement — through passing Trade Promotion Authority — but on making sure the TPP itself is on the right track.Read more

Meet the coolest college startups of 2015
Published:
March 17, 2015
Outlet:
Inc. Magazine
Foxtrot, which was founded by two brothers from MIT and Tufts University, is currently halfway through its seed round of $500,000, with angel investors such as the founder of Google Shopping Express. The company also landed first place at the 2013 MIT 100k Pitch Competition.Read more

MIT Sloan launches Cybersecurity Consortium
Published:
March 16, 2015
Outlet:
Civ Source
“The cybersecurity of our critical infrastructure is a serious national security challenge. This new consortium will help MIT Sloan to make a deep and lasting impact in this area through interdisciplinary research and industry partnerships,” says MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein.Read more

Winter weather adds stress for Boston's struggling workers
Published:
March 12, 2015
Outlet:
PBS NewsHour (Video)
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management: Every dollar that's lost by a low-wage worker is one that, you know, makes it harder and harder to meet the month's rent or to put food on table or to make the car payments. And so all of that adds stress.Read more

MIT shares progress on innovation initiative
Published:
March 12, 2015
Outlet:
Campus Technology
Six months after kicking off its "Innovation Initiative," MIT recently revisited the school-wide effort to hear about progress. The initiative launched as a result of a report released last year that pondered the future of education at the Cambridge-based institute.Read more

How bank stress tests are like restaurant inspections
Published:
March 12, 2015
Outlet:
American Public Media (Audio)
But while these kinds of offenses might shut down a local restaurant, Simon Johnson, professor of entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, says that because banks are so systemically important, regulators tend to treat them with "kid gloves" — but that complexity also means their risks are very difficult to accurately "grade."Read more

MIT alum raises $180,000 for microwavable notebook
Published:
March 11, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe
Rocket Innovations, a Medford-based company co-founded by MIT Sloan School alum Joe Lemay, has raised over $180,000 for a paper notebook whose contents can be saved with a smartphone app and erased by microwaving it.Read more

Obama strikes important blow for retirement savers
Published:
March 10, 2015
Outlet:
Global Times (English Edition) (China) (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management...For the past six years, US President Barack Obama's administration has, more often than not, sided with the interests of big banks on financial-sector policy.Read more

Fixing the T: Anticipate problems, then practice responses
Published:
March 7, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe (Opinion Piece)
Steven Spear is a senior lecturer at MIT in the Sloan School of Management and the Engineering Systems Division. He is author of “The High Velocity Edge,'' 2010...The MBTA was walloped by January's and February's snow, and capital, technological, and urban planning ideas are being floated to prevent future disruptions.Read more

Hi-tech and low-tech mesh to bring recycling to Lagos slums
Published:
March 6, 2015
Outlet:
Engineering.com
Images of these trash piles remained vivid in Adebiyi's mind in 2010, when she was a graduate student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. So when she took the D-Lab course MAS.665 (Development Ventures), which focuses on launching ventures in developing countries, “Something awoke in me to help solve the issue,” Adebiyi says.Read more

An exclusive interview with Bernard Horn of Polaris Global Value Fund
Published:
March 6, 2015
Outlet:
Forbes Magazine
“As an undergrad, I gained strong finance and accounting skills, with a good dose of legal courses. My knowledge was expanded with the capital market theory training at MIT's Sloan School. I think this combination, along with experience at a real company to learn about cash flow creation, was the foundation for my career."Read more

The promise of a systems approach to sustainability
Published:
March 6, 2015
Outlet:
Sustainable Brands (Video)
In this webinar, MIT Sloan's Jason Jay will give an overview of the PROMISE framework, that analyzes sustainability at Personal, Relational, Organizational, Market, Institutional, Social, and Environmental levels.Read more

Dynamic scoring forum: The dangers of dynamic scoring
Published:
March 6, 2015
Outlet:
TAXVOX Blog (Opinion Piece)
Simon Johnson is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a member of CBO's panel of economic advisers; and author, with James Kwak, of White House Burning, a book on US fiscal policy.Read more

Greater Boston's one thing
Published:
January 21, 2015
Outlet:
Xconomy (Opinion Piece)
Aurélie Thiele is a Visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an Associate Professor at Lehigh University. She is at work on a book about higher education and innovation, and enjoys looking at the Boston area with fresh eyes after a decade-long absence.Read more

Fortified wins $150K grant to build a community center for Boston bicycling
Published:
January 21, 2015
Outlet:
BostInno
"When we applied for the grant, we said we were going to do certain things with the money and certain things for the community," said Fortified Co-founder and CEO Slava Menn, an MIT Sloan School of Management alum, acknowledging that although they could have just put the grant toward the company's profits, they opted to stay true to their intentions.Read more

Social Media technology powers alumni career connections
Published:
January 20, 2015
Outlet:
Business Because
"Folks are figuring out ways to collaborate for free, without having to drop a million dollars on a massive development effort," says Sean, an MBA alumnus of MIT's Sloan School of Management, who also worked as its director of alumni relations.Read more

Making paternity leave pay
Published:
January 20, 2015
Outlet:
WBUR's Cognoscenti Blog (Opinion Piece)
Leigh Hafrey has worked in professional ethics, with a focus on ethical leadership, since 1991. At MIT Sloan School of Management, he teaches in the MBA program and Leaders for Global Operations.Read more

Why some teams are smarter than others
Published:
January 16, 2015
Outlet:
The New York Times (Opinion Piece)
Thomas W. Malone is a professor at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and the director of the M.I.T. Center for Collective Intelligence.Read more

Older job seekers find ways to avoid age bias
Published:
January 16, 2015
Outlet:
The New York Times
"In my research, the first thing I hear from older workers looking for a job is that they need to work," said Ofer Sharone, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, author of "Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences" and founder of the nonprofit Institute for Career Transitions.Read more

Patrick to become visiting fellow at MIT
Published:
January 14, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe
L. Rafael Reif, MIT's president, praised Patrick in a statement for taking the time as governor "to educate himself about how fundamental science produces world-changing technologies" and said the school is "delighted that he will join us." Fiona Murray, codirector of the Innovation Initiative, said "enlightened government" can play a critical role in the innovation economy.Read more

Dollar's rise is good news for the U.S., for now
Published:
January 14, 2015
Outlet:
NPR (Audio)
But Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, emphasizes that the dollar's climb is relative. The dollar is being measured against the currencies of other countries.Read more

Anjali Sastry & Kara Penn: Making a success of failure
Published:
January 11, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal's Livemint Blog
Sastry is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and lecturer in the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, US. Penn is co-founder and principal consultant at Mission Spark, a Colorado, US, headquartered consultancy for non-profits and social enterprises.Read more

Is the skills gap real?
Published:
January 9, 2015
Outlet:
The Wall Street Journal
In an attempt to quantify hiring difficulties in the manufacturing sector, Mr. Osterman and Andrew Weaver, an MIT graduate student, asked a large sample of manufacturing firms a detailed series of questions about their vacancies, the duration of vacancies and the skills they were looking for.Read more

How one local entrepreneur taught Lagos, Nigeria to embrace recycling
Published:
January 8, 2015
Outlet:
Fast Company
"People in the U.S. are very careful about taking care of waste. I thought, Why not Nigeria?" says Adebiyi-Abiola. She conceived Wecyclers in 2011, while earning her MBA at MIT. But when she went home, she found that few locals were motivated by talk of helping their environment.Read more

Free fall fluid flow
Published:
January 8, 2015
Outlet:
Food Engineering
We filmed the ketchup bottle video, entered LiquiGlide into the MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition and took home the Audience Choice Award. The ketchup bottle video went viral, and we quickly received more than 2,000 inquiries about our technology from across industries. That's what helped us launch the company.Read more

MIT Sloan School professor honored by Queen Elizabeth
Published:
January 8, 2015
Outlet:
The Boston Globe
The honor is in recognition of Murray's services to the United Kingdom in entrepreneurship and innovation. According to her bio on the MIT website, Murray, the associate dean of innovation at the Sloan School...Read more

What businesses can learn from sports analytics
Published:
January 7, 2015
Outlet:
MIT Sloan Management Review
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, for example, has grown from about 175 attendees in its first year in 2007 to more than 2,000 in 2014. Called the "Super Bowl of sports analytics" and "TED talks in cleats," the conference has catalyzed academics...Read more

After the job interview, what's taking so long?
Published:
January 7, 2015
Outlet:
The Huffington Post (Opinion Piece)
Susan P. Joyce is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Susan is also a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In addition to HuffingtonPost.com, Susan also contributes to AOL Jobs, LinkedIn, YouTern.com, NextAvenue.org, and BrazenCareerist.Read more

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